Producers Market Stories

“Peaceful Opportunities - Rural Women” (Oportunidades Pacíficas - Mujeres Rurales), is supported by the Korea International Cooperation Agency (KOICA), as well as the UN’s World Food Programme (WFP). This holistic approach to empowerment supports women to build secure livelihoods as agents of change, leadership, and transformation in their communities.

On the slopes of the Andes, in the heart of the coffee region, family-run Anabana soursop producer is pioneering the future. 

“Sprouted oat flour tastes better, is easier to digest, has more enzymes and is just more nutritious than regular flour.”

By some estimates, sprouted flour increases vitamin C and carotene content, creates B vitamins, and bumps up the amount of trace minerals present in food.

This plant-based cheese looks and tastes just like mozzarella, and it is perfect with pizza!

StoryBird is important because it is a transparency application that reaches the consumer directly. It provides a scalable model to engage consumers with validated information about their products and producers.

It is quite exciting to picture the innovation that will occur on the ground when young people around the world are empowered with the tools to digitize trillions of dollars of transactions and seemingly infinite data. Agripreneurs can change the way farmers do business.

Sawyer's Organic Maple Farm began with a fire and led 17 year old Kurt Sawyer into the organic maple syrup business.

So many different people came on site to learn natural and sustainable building while experiencing the grounding, nurturing and satisfying feelings that comes from working with mud.